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AI Frontiers: The future of causal reasoning with Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma
| Ashley Llorens, Emre Kiciman, et Amit Sharma
Emre Kiciman and Amit Sharma join Ashley Llorens to discuss the causal capabilities of LLMs and ongoing journeys with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in the newest episode of the Microsoft Research Podcast series, «AI Frontiers.»
3D telemedicine brings better care to underserved and rural communities, even across continents
Providing healthcare in remote or rural areas is challenging, particularly specialized medicine and surgical procedures. Patients may need to travel long distances just to get to medical facilities and to communicate with caregivers. They may not arrive in time to…
Dans l’actualité | OpenAI
Democratic Inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.
Collaborators: Gov4git with Petar Maymounkov and Kasia Sitkiewicz
| Gretchen Huizinga, Petar Maymounkov, et Kasia Sitkiewicz
Collaboration is key to bringing ideas from lab to life. In the first episode of the #MSRPodcast series “Collaborators,” learn how GitHub’s Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs’ Petar Maymounkov are teaming up to make open-source collaborative work better.
Dans l’actualité | Future Scot
Scotland’s ‘innovation fellowship scheme’ points to better health and social care future
Harnessing the game-changing potential of emerging technologies is important in every sector – but within NHS Scotland it is absolutely vital. Improving the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of healthcare must be a key driver in supporting the NHS Recovery Plan to…
Dans l’actualité | WSJ Tech News Briefing podcast
Could Underwater Data Centers Make Cloud Computing Greener?
Cloud storage centers suck up a lot of energy. But when Microsoft tried putting data centers underwater a couple of years ago, it found the strategy greatly reduced energy use and improved performance. Now a U.S. startup called Subsea Cloud…
Dans l’actualité | COMPLEXITY podcast
Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society
This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFI’s Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor…
IOM and Microsoft release first-ever differentially private synthetic dataset to counter human trafficking
Microsoft is home to a diverse team of researchers focused on supporting a healthy global society, including finding ways technology can address human rights problems affecting the most vulnerable populations around the world. With a multi-disciplinary background in human-computer interaction, data…